Nano Banana's new gameplay features infinite nesting dolls. "Even GPT-5 can't handle recursion at this level."
Guess what? The new way to play with Nano Banana is like the rule of Louis XVI, with no end in sight.
As soon as I opened my eyes today, I found that the Pro version had dragged us into a world of infinite nesting dolls, like this:
I wonder, which came first, this photo or this oil painting? (doge)
To draw this picture, the prompts needed are very simple:
An amateur photography work from 1998. In the picture, a middle - aged artist is manually copying the image on the computer screen onto a stretched canvas. However, this image itself is actually a shot taken by the artist when painting this recursive image.
The original author of this photo, Reddit user r/ChatGPT, was amazed and said that the picture drawn by Nano Banana Pro really impressed him -
The halo from the old - fashioned monitor, the splashed paint under the canvas, and the timestamp of the point - and - shoot camera in the lower right corner of the picture... r/ChatGPT zoomed in on this picture and admired it like a famous masterpiece for 20 minutes.
You know, behind r/ChatGPT is Riley Goodside, who is generally regarded as one of the earliest "prompt engineers" in the industry and is even called "the world's most powerful prompt engineer" by the media.
This year, he joined Google DeepMind and is engaged in work related to large - model prompt engineering.
After sharing his nesting - doll gameplay this time, Riley also took the opportunity to make a comparison: "Even GPT - 5 can't handle this level of recursion!"
Nano Banana truly lives up to its name. It's really amazing...
"Your recursion times are about to run out"
Curious netizens rushed over quickly and have started nesting dolls to the point of losing track of reality -
Some of the generated images are very successful.
Moreover, the prompts are right on the cake. It shows that they've really mastered how to play with Nano Banana.
Netizens praised it after seeing the images, saying that Nano Banana has a very good understanding of the background and shooting perspective specified in the prompts.
Among the results shared by everyone, there are also some that make people shake their heads, like the following one.
Did it do the nesting - doll effect? It seems so.
But it also seems that something is wrong with the nesting. Scratching head.gif
In addition, people also found that as long as "1998" is specified, Nano Banana likes to add a timestamp of October 1998.
We don't know why it has a special preference for this month.
Does anyone know the reason behind this?
However, just like some language models that may spout nonsense, the photos generated by Nano Banana are definitely not 100% perfect.
There are still many bugs in the details of this nesting - doll game. Moreover, many people set it to draw an old - fashioned photo when playing the infinite nesting - doll game. The photos have noise comparable to that of a CCD and low resolution, giving the AI a lot of leeway to "make mistakes".
However, it should be noted that in this nesting - doll game, there is no such thing as the "main image" mentioned by the netizen above.
When the AI generates an image, it doesn't copy, paste, scale, or splice existing image materials (such as a photo of a cat) like using Photoshop to edit pictures.
When Nano Banana draws a picture, it seems to be using the same elements for nesting, but in fact, the seemingly identical parts are generated from random noise respectively.
Gemini's market share rises to 30%
The current "hallucinations" in drawing don't prevent people from expressing their love for Nano Banana.
In the Reddit discussion area, many users directly use "Gemini is CRAZY" to express their amazement.
Well -
It's so great! Google, you're really amazing!
Not only is Nano Banana being played with wildly by everyone, but after the release of Gemini 3 on the 19th of this month, according to the statistics of SimilarWeb, Gemini's market share directly rose from 23% to 30% in a short period of time.
(Note: Only desktop and mobile web page views are counted, excluding applications)
Although it can be seen from the purple curve in the graph that ChatGPT's core user group remains stable, the rapid rise in market share might make ChatGPT wonder with a question mark:
Hey Bro, is this reasonable?
Another topic is being discussed on social media at the same time.
Is the additional 7% market share due to the short - term interest of marginal users brought by the new release, or has it really attracted a new wave of long - term fans?
After all, according to the data cited by TechRadar, ChatGPT's user loyalty is about 82%, while Gemini only has 49%.
Some people say that users of large models don't have any loyalty at all. Once a more intelligent model appears, people will immediately switch to it.
Anyway, Gemini has indeed made some users change their minds.
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, is one of those who happily switched to Gemini:
I've used ChatGPT every day for the past three years. But after playing with Gemini 3 for two hours just now, I can't go back. Its reasoning ability, speed, image, and video capabilities... It's simply an amazing leap in capabilities. Everything has become faster and clearer. It feels like the world has changed again.
Some other netizens also shared their daily AI combination -
They use Claude for programming and writing. When it comes to in - depth research, search, learning (NotebookLM), design, images, and videos, they use Gemini.
What about you? Which AIs do you use every day?
You can share it with everyone in the comments section～
Reference links: [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1p4ljuz/nano_banana_gemini_3_prompt_gone_infinite_1998/
[2]https://x.com/goodside/status/1993049543945159145?s=20
[3]https://x.com/Benioff/status/1992726929204760661?s=20
[4]https://x.com/deedydas/status/1992972767424331978?s=20
This article is from the WeChat official account "QbitAI". Author: Focus on cutting - edge technology. Republished by 36Kr with authorization.